So Much For That Obama VP Texting Thing

As MocoNews reports, Barack Obama’s VP choice failed to arrive first via SMS and e-mail. Instead, news of the pick first came from traditional news sources like the LA Times, which ran the announcement on one of the site’s political blogs.

“The leak from a ‘Democratic official’ up-ended whatever power SMS and email might have wrested from traditional media as a mass communication tool in politics,” the article said. “The Obama campaign planned to do a first for SMS and it didn’t happen.

“If

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